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Category: Dubious to hopeless
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I've even taken a sabbatical from this blog. I think that the dog walk has become a substitute (guilty pleasure when I'm working at home*) for the blog post (guilty pleasure when I'm in the office). Whatever is going on, I have too much to say about the way the world works to let this…
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Hello, John Whitehead is happy to report that he is no longer a part-time academic administrator (i.e., Economics Department Chair). If your email is regarding department business, please redirect it to our new chair Todd Cherry at cherrytl at appstate.edu. John Whitehead is also happy to report that he is on Off-Campus Scholarly Assignment (i.e.,…
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Exactly one week after the CVM article estimating BP damages appears in Science this book critical of the CVM is being published: Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods: A Comprehensive Critique Edited by Daniel McFadden and Kenneth Train Contingent valuation is a survey-based procedure that attempts to estimate how much households are willing to pay for specific programs…
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I am an expert in the field of "Stupid and Stupider." From the inbox: Dear Dr. John Whitehead, My name is Ellery Willianms, the editorial assistant of Business and Management Studies (ISSN: 2374-5916; E-ISSN: 2374-5924). BMS is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Redfame Publishing. The journal is published Quarterly (March, June, September and…
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The AERE Summer Conference Program has been released! From the inbox: The AERE Summer Conference schedule of papers has been posted! We are excited about the variety and excellence of this year’s program–click here to see all the sessions. The list of papers for Friday afternoon’s special session on The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil…
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This paper, a response to Desvousges, Mathews and Train's "adequate responsive to scope" paper, has just been published online in the methodological and ideological options section of Ecological Economics: Plausible responsiveness to scope is a question of economic significance, in addition to statistical significance, of the scope test in contingent valuation. We briefly review the…
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Lucas Davis at the Energy Institute at Haas blog (emphasis added): Last month Meredith wrote about coal being too cheap and Max wrote about gasoline being too cheap. But what is the right price for energy? Nobody in recent years has done more to try to answer this question than Ian Parry, a University of…
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Most read articles from Applied Economics Policy and Perspectives in February, 2016: Jonas Kathage, Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw, and Matin Qaim "Big Constraints or Small Returns? Explaining Nonadoption of Hybrid Maize in Tanzania" Appl. Econ. Perspect. Pol. (2016) 38 (1): 113–131 first published online April 7, 2015 doi:10.1093/aepp/ppv009 Harry de Gorter and David R. Just…
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Zuh? Paul Glimcher and Michael A. Livermore in the NY Times: THE United States government recently announced an $18.7 billion settlement of claims against the oil giant BP in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in April 2010, which dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Though some of the…
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A Natural Resource Damage Assessment case study for the classroom and beyond: A long-fought legal battle to recover $8.9 billion in damages from Exxon Mobil Corporation for the contamination and loss of use of more than 1,500 acres of wetlands, marshes, meadows and waters in New Jersey has been quietly settled by the state for around…
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